In Central America and the Caribbean, Colombia and Venezuela, it is the name of several trees. The most common is one of the family Bignoniaceae, which we also know as jacaranda. Its scientific name is Jacaranda caerulea. There is another, in the same region, which is also known as tzalam, of the Fabaceae family, being its scientific name Lysiloma latisiliquum. Also called abey the Poeppigia procera and the Pithecellobium discolor, both forage species of the Fabaceae family. As if that were not enough, there are also other trees called abey : white abey , which are of the genera Albizia and Abarema, both of the family Fabaceae; the male abey, which its scientific name is Tetragastris balsamifera of the family Burseraceae and the female abey or moruro, whose scientific name is Peltophorum adnatum, native to Cuba or the Peltophorum dubium, of the Dominican Republic. It is also known as reed. All of the above are from the Fabaceae family.
